In this episode from Summer, 2018, the Book of Nature guys tackle a subject that has been on many peoples’ minds for much of 2018 given events in Hawaii at Mt. Kilauea – the subject[…]
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Tag: science
Book of Nature, Ep. 27: Star Trek
In this episode, recorded in May, 2018, the Book of Nature Hosts get their Trek on, and explore the whole Star Trek franchise, from The Original Series to Discovery, and all things in between. Enjoy[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 26: Arrival
In this episode (recorded this past spring) the Book of Nature trio explore the short science fiction story, “The Story of Your Life”, by Ted Chiang, and the recent film based upon the story, Arrival.[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 25: Moon vs. Mars
In this episode, the Book of Nature crew examines the question – possibly reinvigorated recently by the launch of Falcon Heavy, the next step en route to a heavy lift vehicle capable of Mars launches[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 24: CRISPR/CAS-9 and Gene Editing
In this episode, Dan and Todd, with the help of Sectarian Review’s Danny Anderson, take a peek at genetic editing, and in particular the CRISPR system, which is a hot topic in recent studies of[…]
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Booklets of Nature, Ep. 2: Falcon Heavy
On February 6, 2018, between 1:30pm and 4:30pm EST, SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon Heavy launch vehicle for the first time, after having successfully tested the rocket in a January 24 static engine test at[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 23: The Flat Earth
In this episode – recorded in the summer of 2017 – Todd, Charles, and Dan discuss the recently resurgent Flat Earth concept, focusing in on the model itself, its difficulties lining up with fairly straightforward[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 22: Consciousness
Recorded in late May 2017, in this episode of Book of Nature, your hosts grapple with what it means to be sentient – to have a conscious existence. Subjects of discussion include philosophical underpinnings of[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 20: The Conflict Hypothesis
Your Book of Nature hosts are back! I (Todd Pedlar) deeply apologize for our lack of recordings over the past months – we are slowly uploading a few episodes we have in the can, and[…]
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Book of Nature, Ep. 19: Cosmological Fine Tuning
In this episode, Dan and Todd discuss the idea that the universe is in some sense “fine tuned” for our existence – that fundamental constants of physics all seem to have values that lie within[…]
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